Meet orchid scientist Oscar Perez-Escobar who has travelled all over the world to help protect rare orchids. And Bala ...

Chrysanthemums are one of the Four Gentlemen of China, flowers that appear as a frequent motif in Chinese artwork, along with bamboo, orchid and plum blossom. Each flower represents a season, with ...

China is home to more than 1,700 orchid species, reflecting a breathtaking range of landscapes – from the humid forests of ...

Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with stories from Kew's Archives. The Archives team at Kew has been ...

If plant life stops, all life stops. But at Kew, we're not going to let that happen. We've only just scratched the surface of what plants and fungi can do. Now it's time to protect them and fight ...

Joanne Yeomans explores how Kew has inspired people including royalty throughout its history and introduces a new exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art which celebrates this. The ...

Fungi exhibit an astonishing variety of shapes, colours, and textures, making them fascinating subjects for botanical art. This two-day course will introduce participants to fungal structures, ...

Nearly 2000 years ago, the city of Cyrene in Northern Africa (modern day Libya) had one plant to thank for its status as one of the richest cities in the land. It was known as silphium, and had almost ...

RBG Kew’s fifth State of the World’s report, published today, lays out the current condition of the world’s plants and fungi globally. Based on the work of 200 international researchers and covering ...

Nature has been the inspiration for many forms of art and literature throughout history. In fact, it inspired the very first photographically illustrated book. Cyanotype photography is a camera-less ...

A plant giant has been named new to science at Kew after spending 177 years hidden under the surface of our collections. A breaking botanical discovery has come to light, as the famous giant waterlily ...

Learn more about the mysterious pomegranate; an important source of food and medicine for thousands of years and the fruit of ancient myths. The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is one of the oldest ...